GET /health - Bridger

The lightest endpoint for checking whether the service has started up correctly. It requires no authentication and can be used directly for load balancers and Kubernetes liveness probes.

Request

GET /health

Authentication: none
Content-Type: not applicable

Response 200

{
  "status": "healthy",
  "service": "mcp-gateway",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-09T05:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
`status`	`"healthy"`	Started up normally
`service`	string	Service identifier (`mcp-gateway`)
`timestamp`	ISO 8601	Response generation time

Endpoint	Auth	Description
`GET /health`	none	Liveness — always returns `status: healthy`
`GET /health/ready`	none	Readiness — checks dependencies like DB and Redis. `200 healthy` when OK, `503 degraded` on failure
`GET /health/detailed`	API Key	Detailed report including per-dependency status and latency (latencyMs)

/health/ready response example (dependency check):

{
  "status": "healthy",
  "service": "mcp-gateway",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-09T05:00:00.000Z",
  "checks": {
    "database": { "status": "healthy", "latencyMs": 3 },
    "redis": { "status": "healthy", "latencyMs": 1 }
  }
}

cURL

curl https://mcp.datari.kr/health

Kubernetes probe example

livenessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 5
  periodSeconds: 10
readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health/ready
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 5
  periodSeconds: 5